Trust Is Fragile | Rayla X OC!Reader | Dragon Prince Fanfiction

I was somehow still managing to pick the adoraburrs off of me. Rayla and me had spent a good thirty minutes sitting down and trying to remove as many as we could before continuing on. Surprise, surprise, it barely helped. I pulled off a dark green adoraburr, I glared at it before gently placing it on the little stack of adoraburrs I had.

"I can't believe I'm almost home. Somehow I'm happy and excited, but also terrified." 

"Don't worry about it. Everything will be fine, I'm sure once they see you and little Zym, they'll help us." I assured, finally pulling the last adoraburr off of me. Placing it on top of the stack, I admired the wobbly stack of tiny creatures. 

"When the other elves see me and Zym is one thing. But my new human friend might not be so popular." She spoke as if it was the most obvious thing in the world. The adoraburrs turned to face me, taking in the obvious fact I wasn't an elf before leaping away. I lightly crossed my arms over my chest. "Good thing, I have come prepared. With taking lots of inspiration by you.." I trailed off as I slipped my backpack off of my shoulder and searched through it.

When I took a hold of the two sticks that were conveniently shape to look like antlers, I perfectly placed them in my hair, so it looked as it the "antlers" were poking out of my head. "Please welcome, your charming, wonderful, and amazing new elf friend!" I declared, spinning around and facing Rayla.

Rayla looked to be visibly startled by the appearance. "I haven't done much research on elves before, but I'm pretty sure there is an elf with antlers." Before Rayla could respond, I interrupted her. "How are you doing on this fine day? Lovely weather we're having aren't we." I managed to mimic an accent that was a little similar to Rayla's. "How about a high-four?" I raised my hand up, keeping my middle and ring finger together as a way to hide the fact that I had five fingers. Rayla looked fed up with the illusion already, she reluctantly gave me a high-four. 

"Down low?" I asked lowering my hand down. Rayla waved dismissively at me. 

"No, we're done." I felt a little disappointed as she walked away. Zym turned around and happily hit the palm on my hand with his tail. I dipped my head towards him. "At least someone appreciates the illusion." I spoke loud enough for Rayla to hear me. It was very easy to see how badly she wished for the elf disguise to be a simple joke, but I wouldn't give her the satisfaction of allowing it to be.

The three of us walked side by side, Rayla couldn't seem to stop smiling at the thought of going back home. "We're here. My home." Rayla sighed happily as she walked further ahead to get a look at the clearing. It was empty. There were trees surrounding the clearing, but it was all empty. "Here? It looks a little.. empty." I spoke, trying to use words that wouldn't make Rayla want to kill me. She hung her head. "It's hidden by an illusion."

"To get in, I perform a special ritual that lets me see through the spell. It's like having a magic key."

"Right, but how would me and Zym get in?" I asked. I was pretty positive that Zym had no clue what the ritual was either.

"You'll use my key." She said out stretching one of her arms and letting the other hover in front of her chest. I stared at her confused. "Come on, its easy. Just do what I do." She walked over and took my bag off of my shoulders and set it off to the side, then she positioned my arms in the same way she had hers. There was a a soft flutter of butterflies for a moment, the feeling instantly went away when Rayla had backed up. 

The scenery around us slowly faded into a darker shade, it was as if the ritual had quickly put the sun to rest and let the night sky cool down the the Earth. The clearing was now full of different buildings and had moonshadow elves scattered around it, going about their daily lives. It was incredible.